What is it about?
Our article is about the practices of teachers working in the Moldavian region of Romania teaching Hungarian, who help their students write letters to the people sponsoring the children's learning of the language,
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Why is it important?
The article presents how teachers deliberately choose to correct some "mistakes" in the texts of the children but choose to leave other linguistic features in order to make the texts seem more specific of that community.
Perspectives
Interesting analysis of what is authentic or what is made to be seen authentic regarding a language or language variety on the verge of extinction.
dr. Noémi Fazakas
Universitatea Sapientia
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This page is a summary of: Enregistering authenticity in language revitalisation, Journal of Sociolinguistics, September 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/josl.12308.
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